Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

secrets management

230 live US technical postings name secrets management in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 230 postings naming secrets management that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer40.4%
  2. 2Software Engineer28.3%
  3. 3Security Engineer27.8%
  4. 4AI Engineer1.7%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer1.3%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where secrets management is named
n = 114
10th
$150k
25th
$175k
Median
$205k
75th
$250k
90th
$280k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote22.6%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA20.9%
  3. 3New York, NY10%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA8.3%
  5. 5Seattle, WA4.8%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.9%
  7. 7Los Angeles, CA1.7%
  8. 8San Diego, CA1.7%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.